hi im new and have just been diagnosed these last 8 months ,

im trying out changing my diet to see if it helps , at the moment for the last 2 months , i havent managed to be consistant , but i have cut out alot of meat and am only buying free range and organic meat for home where i occasionaly have a little taste . Im mostly eating raw veg as much as possible , no sugar or processed food , organic milk or soya but only alpro soya . im eating goats cheese instead of normal cheese . and wheat free bread .


im finding that when im good and stick to these foods the lumps in my palm and the lumps on my fingers reduce in size , its realy difficult to stick to tho since sometimes i eat takeaway and at work im vegetarian but there are still things there i wouldnt normaly eat .


im planning to try to start a food diary because there are some times when i havent stuck to my diet and my lumps have swelled alot ,and it feels tight pulling my ring finger ,

i hope it will help me pin down some foods that disagree with me .

i do smoke a little and am substituting for an inhalour at times and i also drink the odd glass of wine


ill keep posting as soon as i have any more reliable results , but at the moment although im not constant i can say that sticking to all the above mentioned i do notice a difference

for what it may be worth no meat or poultry for 35 years ...never eat or cared for sweets ...no sweets at all in decades.
never smoked ... light beer once in a while ...still have Dupys ..

Thanks guys and hi gary , yes ive been concearned about sugar , obviously time will tell , ive never had a sweet tooth at all and still have this , but theres an interesting ted talk about possible effects of hidden sugars in food , the guy is talking about diabetes , but food for thought i think .

heres a link http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_wha..._the_week_image



Peter Attia: Surgeon
Peter Attia
Both a surgeon and a self-experimenter, Peter Attia hopes to ease the diabetes epidemic by challenging what we think we know and improving the scientific rigor in nutrition and obesity research.
Why you should listen to him:
Peter Attia has dedicated his medical career to investigating the relationship between nutrition, obesity and diabetes. A surgeon who developed metabolic syndrome himself despite the fact that he ate well and exercised often, Attia realized that our understanding of these important health issues may not actually be correct. He devoted himself to using vigorous scientific inquiry to test both our assumptions and new hypotheses through the Nutrition Science Initiative, the nonprofit he co-founded in 2012. Attia also writes the blog Eating Academy, which charts his own adventures in nutrition and examines scientific evidence surrounding food, weight loss and disease risk. Overall, he hopes to convince others that sharp increases in the rates of obesity and diabetes -- despite the fact that we are more culturally aware of these problems than ever -- might be a result of people being given the wrong information.
Attia came to this calling through an unusual path. While he was studying mechanical engineering as an undergrad, a personal experience led him to discover his passion for medicine. He enrolled at Stanford Medical School, and went on to a residency in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. After his residency, he joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he worked on healthcare and financial system problems. The most valuable skill he learned along the way: to ask bold questions about medical assumptions.
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i dont supose this thing will just go but im hoping diet will slow it down , i dont like the look of those injections !

good luck with ures

kind regards
julie

Edited 09/21/13 18:45

Although I'm no expert in this area, I am somewhat of a dietary fanatic when it comes to my health and I still have DD. From everything I've researched I haven't seen anything that leads me to believe that diet has any direct effect on the illness. I do believe, however, that clean healthy eating has an overall benefit that could prove beneficial with some of the discomforts of DD. Eating foods that have an anti-inflammatory effect on your body could be what your experiencing that appears as if your nodules are shrinking. It could be simply that any inflammation that might have been present may have dissipated once you started eating better. Like I said, I'm no expert but it's mind blowing if you ever look into what inflammation can do to your body and how your diet can have such a drastic effect on turning it around.

I wish you the best in finding what works best for you. When it comes right down to it, we all just want relief from this awful thing.

Staci

FYI
I DO NOT SMOKE ..DRINK..EAT ANY SWEETS ..NO MEAT ..NO POULTRY..NOT DIABETIC..IN GOOD SHAPE...GUESS WHAT ..I HAVE DUPUYTRENS...

WHO KNOWS WHAT THE REAL CAUSE IS...MINE WAS TRIGGERED BY TRAUMA ..TO A FINGER ...JABBED MYSELF WITH SCISSORS ...AND THAT GOT IT GOING ...

AS I HAVE WRITTEN IN THE PAST ..N.A. WORKED FOR ME ...AND WEARING NIGHT SPLINTS...